Fest lineup will showcase 146 films from 45 countries, including 22 world preems, 30 North American preems and 28 U.S. preems.

Organizers also have added three new sections — African Voices, Dark Horizons (similar to the Sundance Film Fest’s Midnight section) and World Cinema.

Lineup includes 11 films that have been chosen as their country’s Oscar submission, including Algeria’s “Days of Glory,” Australia’s “Ten Canoes,” Denmark’s “After the Wedding,” Spain’s “Volver” and Germany’s “The Lives of Others.”

AFI Fest 2006, headquartered at the ArcLight Hollywood, runs Nov. 1-12, concurrently with the American Film Market.

As previously announced, “Bobby” is the festival’s opening night film, while Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver” will also be featured as a gala centerpiece. The closing night film has yet to be revealed.

Zwick makes his appearance on Nov. 8, one month before Warner Bros. bows “Blood Diamond.” Zwick, Aronofsky and Lynch are all alumni of the AFI Conservatory’s directing program, as are a number of other filmmakers with films playing at AFI Fest 2006.

Of the 111 features, 91 are narrative and 20 are docus. Of the 36 shorts, 33 are narrative and three are docus.

“This is a very exciting year for us. We noticed a lot of emerging trends really hitting their stride,” said AFI fest director of programming Nancy Collet.

“The films in the new latenight movie section seemed to be pushing some classic genre elements to the limits. We also noticed a thriving, exciting film industry in Africa so we created the African Voices section. There are really original storytelling techniques coming from that part of the world,” Collet said.

Among the six films in the Dark Horizon section, four will make their North American preem — “Alien Autopsy,” “Dark Corners,” “Danika” and “Re-cycle.” Likewise, a number of pics in World Cinema and African Voices also will be making their North American or U.S. bows.

Other fest sections are Galas (5), Special Presentations (12), International Feature Competition (12), International Documentary Competition (12), Latin Cinema Series (10), American Directions (10), Asian New Classics (8) and International Shorts Competition (36).